DMK won’t have alliance with Cong for LS polls,says Stalin

He reiterated the party had sought support of the Congress in the RS polls to elect Kanimozhi as MP “whi-ch is a common practice followed by any political party”.

Addressing a meeting organised to provide poll funds for the party,Stalin said,“We only sought support from the Congress in the Rajya Sabha polls for our candidate Kanimozhi and it has been misinterpreted as if we joined hands again with the Congress.”

Stalin’s statement comes a day after DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi rejected the charge that his party had compromised on its stand in the Sri Lankan Tamils issue by joining hands with the Congress for the Rajya Sabha elections.

Karunanidhi had said the support was unconditional and confined to the specific polls. The Congress’s decision to support the DMK came as a surprise against the backdrop of the bitter separation between the two parties after nine years of friendship in the UPA coalition.